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Fairbanks collection negatives
These come from an incredible collection of photos from a 1908 expedition to Yosemite and the Sierras by Harold Fairbanks, a geographer-geologist who obtained his PhD from UC Berkeley in 1896. I understand that these are faculty members — we can’t even get ours to attend the same coffee hour! Photographic negatives from the HaroldContinue reading “Fairbanks collection negatives”
On the occasion of Canada’s 150th birthday
BBC Online put up this tribute — and it’s great to see SNO at the top of its list. Also, this is the most Canadian thing I’ve seen in a while (from my present Californian perspective): the federal government branded a logo!
Guest lecture in “The Anthropocene: An Archaeological Perspective”
I was invited by Dr Hans Barnard of the Cotsen Center for Archaeology at UCLA to give a short guest lecture to his honors collegium class today on reconstructing crop yields from climate models and using lake core sediment charcoal as a paleofire proxy. I was in august company as Dr. Emily Lindsey, paleontologist and AssistantContinue reading “Guest lecture in “The Anthropocene: An Archaeological Perspective””
March for Science, LA-style
From L to R: UCLA Geographers marching for science (Prof. Eric Sheppard, me, Prof. Helga Leitner, Emma Colven); Xeno hound dog sporting fetching shirt from the spring collection: “Dear Science, Thanks for Civilization!” Scenes from the March for Science DTLA, including the sit-in on the steps of City Hall.
Gaspe winters
My great grandmother was born in a village called Shigawake on the Gaspé, an historic peninsula on the Maritime (Atlantic) coast of Quebec. My family still has a house there. I grew up with stories of the tremendous winter storms that raged when we were away in Upper Canada, and observing the evidence of themContinue reading “Gaspe winters”
Responses from geographers
In his capacity as AAG president, Glen MacDonald wrote the following statement on 29 January 2017: Creating and Preserving Actionable and Policy-Relevant Geography Ensconced in our academic environs, as students or as faculty, we are sometimes accused of being removed and aloof from the issues of the real world and our research regarded as beingContinue reading “Responses from geographers”
Nostalgic for the schloss
Canadian Scientists Explain Exactly How Their Government Silenced Science
Smithsonian.com: Canadian Scientists Explain Exactly How Their Government Silenced Science. http://google.com/newsstand/s/CBIwzZWmlDQ
New Yorker: The Atomic Origins of Climate Science
The Atomic Origins of Climate Science http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/01/30/the-atomic-origins-of-climate-science?mbid=gnep&intcid=gnep&google_editors_picks=true
Marcus James Thomson, Ph.D. 